From Amazon:
‘Do yourself a favour: buy this, curl up in your favourite chair and read it, knowing you will come away refreshed.’
Life is a complex thing. As social beings, we live side by side, sometimes in not so harmonious circumstances. This book celebrates love and tackling the challenges we face as humans. Control is not always ours.
Keep learning.
Keep growing.
Be yourself.
Do your best.
Life is complicated, yet very simple.
‘These poems are layered and more formal — with an air of William Blake or even Christina Rosetti — but without pretension or anachronism. They still have the Lawson touch.’
‘Lily Lawson has this way of making me weep.
And dance.
And understand myself a little better.
And understand others, perhaps, a little better too.’
“Hate vs Love” is the strongest poem in the collection. … I enjoyed the repeating “p” sound in “powerful punch poisoning” as an attempt to replicate that ongoing bruised feeling when hateful words hit our heart. And following this, “wasting weighty words” is an excellent way to display exhaustion, as the mouth quickly gets tired of forming the “w” sound. Another favorite line of mine is “History is buried deep within me” in “The Vault”.
My Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartfelt
Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2025
The poetry within these pages are heartfelt. The good in life compared to the bad in the same poem. Overall, the poetry speaks of pain, heartache, loss, love, visions of not texting or tweeting, but back to the old ways before digital. The most important part of the poetry concerns a person standing strong despite what others have done to her.
When Angels Fly 